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Just because "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> could, he/she/it
opin'd thus:
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>"Travis Jordan" <no.one@no.net> wrote in message
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>> Jeff Strickland wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> If I connect my volt meter properly, it can tell me the current that
>>> is available -- I haven't done this test yet. I would expect to see
>>> something in the range of 10 amps (this is the rating of the fuse) to
>>> make the lamps come on. If I only see 0.5 amps, this would seem to
>>> support my theory of a bad switch. Is that right?[/color]
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>> If you connect your "volt meter" to the ampere current range and connect
>> it to the socket, you will blow the fuse. And you might even fuse the
>> intermittent contact on the reverse switch, if indeed that is the
>> problem.
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>That's correct. But if I connect my volt meter properly, I'd be using the
>ameter sockets and selection on the meter's dial ...[/color]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, but if your ammeter is
connected correctly (in series with the circuit under test) you can't
test how much current is available, only how much current is being
drawn by whatever is in the circuit . . . .

-Don
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